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Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.
I'm afraid I won't have as many as some of my contemporaries. Some of these are
Eternia's Cage: This was originally intended to be an online interactive fiction that brokenbrawler and I cooked up some years ago, RP'd some fun times with and then never actually got any real writing done on it. Most of our interactive fiction group at the time was getting into college and getting married, having children and generally getting on with lives and to a point where they were not online as much. If you've ever seen the animé .hack/Sign, then you'll see that our premise was built out of that idea with some obvious modifications. A lot of those mods probably came from me because I'd actually only seen a couple of episodes, so I didn't really understand the premise to begin with other than that it involved an online game. The main premise is that story starts out inside a game, with a pair of characters Tomi and Archer working together to defeat an enemy. Their players are from Tokyo and somewhere in the US (I forget actually) They have become good friends in game, and are about to meet in Tokyo as Archer is going there for some kind of study (or something, again, I don't remember). Tomi works with high end technology and has some very unique hacks and tools created specifically for game play and code breaking. Once Archer arrives and they can speak in person outside the game, Tomi reveals a suspicion that something strange is going on with the game. Some of the NPC's have some really bizarre coding or what appear to be glitches in the code that shouldn't even work. I think we may have had a different idea of how the story would be told. It's been a while, but I think my mind was more concentrated with outside game interaction, and brokenbrawler may have been more focussed on inside game play interaction. That wouldn't surprise me, since that's how the story is told on .hack/Sign, but sine I had no real grounding in that animé, I wouldn't have known that. Personally, I still like the idea of most of the story being told from outside, and I wonder if brokenbrawler would mind if I pulled this premise to build into something a little workable as a novel myself. I still really like the basic premise, and it wouldn't be the first time the concept of a game vs outside world story was ever told either. Hell, Tron (the original Tron) was something along those lines.
A Switching Tale: This is a story about a pair of twins, Ash and Rowan who flee from their hometown seeking a cure for an illness that Ash has suffered from since childhood. Rowan came to believe that their stepmother was trying to kill Ash, though she did not understand why, and convinced her brother to flee just in time before the Recency's troops arrived to garrison the town of Langley Crossing. The story evolves into an epic adventure, as Ash and Rowan discover that there is much more to their history and story than they ever thought and they set out in search of the kingdoms ancient relics in the company of a Trowsidhe (Dark Elf), a Jerdasidhe (Sun Elf), (two people are traditional enemies to each other). Along the way they are assisted by other companions, some who stay with them at length and some who only travel with them for a short while. Their travels eventually lead them into the holy land of the last true rulers of Merisala and the liberation of their kingdom.
Gaia's Song: Daniel Teridani, and his fiancée Sierra Brooks live a happy quiet life in Justin Bay, South Ceta where Daniel has a small practice as a natural healer based in his native Kantainese healing. Daniel has a strange elemental power that he does not understand, and rarely uses, and Sierra has a latent psychic talent. When Daniel's older brother Andrew was killed in action in the country to the north, Daniel and Sierra started working on getting the Cetan authorities to release Drew's body for interment in Kantai, Daniel . Daniel follows Sierra to the great city of Ceta Prime when Sierra goes missing during a trip. In time Daniel meets, Nanashi Sou, a fellow Kantainese with an elemental power associated mostly with water. Together with some others, they find Sierra, but discover a dark secret within the City that is spreading through the world. Together the group of them escape from Ceta and set out to learn about the strange abilities that seem to come from Gaia herself as they struggle to fulfill the destiny they have uncovered.
Chasing the Trail: The automail port in Edward Elric's shoulder becomes deeply infected because of the metals that were used to reconstruct it on the back side of the gate of truth. He becomes very ill from it and collapses on his way home from a part. Ultimately, he ends up at Roy Mustang's house where Winry comes to his rescue and replaces the port she has nagged him about for months. As Ed heals and regains his strength, he and Winry finally start to see their feelings for each other come to the light, but they are suddenly separated from each other just as things are starting to fall into place for them. To be reunited, they are forced to follow a puzzling trail and find each other again.
Lucifer's Daughter: What would happen if Lucifer's own daughter refused to take part in the rebellion? She would have a dilemma, wouldn't she? I mean, on one hand, there is the law: Honor thy father and mother. Lucifer is her father, so she should do what he says shouldn't she? On the other hand... this is rebellion against God... their sovereign lord in heaven. Now... what would happen to her after the war? Either choice she made, she would be going against heaven's law... but what would happen to her if she were granted some sort of dispensation for refusing to support the rebellion, even though she broke heaven's law to do so, in not honoring her father? (P.S. This is a saved story idea, and there is not one scrap of this story written at this time other than the graph preceding.)
Astral Flip: (An FMA/Earth crossover fiction) Thompson Aaron died three times on the operating table. Three trips through the white tunnel and back. Each trip stuffed her head with more information. When she returned that last time she discovered she had a wealth of random scientific, metaphysic, mathematic and alchemical facts to sort out. One thing she knew for sure; she could travel into the astral, and with the right set of calculations, she could travel anywhere, and take her whole mind body and soul with her. Where she ends up is right in the lap of a diminutive alchemist who does appreciate her asking him to just call her "Pipsqueak". This was designed to be a funny, VERY tongue in cheek story semi-interactive fiction with only a couple of writers involved. I never found a second writer to play with me, so the first part of the first chapter was really the only part that got written.
Bloodhunt: Actually, this is not mine. It is a universe created for an interactive fiction that all participants agreed that anyone participating who wanted to use the premise to write a novel could do so. Jana and I worked on her version together for a while which is why it's in my 'working' folder still. After a while, it being her novel, she pretty much took off on her own with it and has since finished it and submitted it around. I have my own story written in this universe.
The Millennium Children: 100 years ago, a mission to Mars ended badly. Few of the astronauts return, and it is soon discovered that they are carrying a strange organism within their bodies that allows them to draw and manipulate thaumatic energy in various different ways. The organism spreads to a number of people before it is 'contained', but eventually those in the thaumatic internment camps rise up and break out. It is discovered over time that the descendants of these people also have thaumitochondria (as the organelle has come to be called) so that now there are magic users of various sorts throughout the world. Michael Yamoto is an officer in the largest militia in his country. When a nuke is exploded in space above NYC, he is sent to investigate under the guise escorting a scientist from New York to Chicago on a special exchange program. What Michael discovers is that this is far more than just a simple terrorist threat.
At the Gates of Dawn: Well this was actually a multi universal RP. I don't know why I have it in my Joint writing really. It's not like any text was going to be produced. I was only one of the writers. My main character was a primary Animé plus post CoS Edward Elric. All that is in this folder are a profile and two documents about the drugs they have Ed on to keep him under control. One explains them in fair detail including what it does, the side effects and his withdrawal symptoms, and one that just notes what each one was based on in the real world if any.
Damn Fine Frying Pan: This is not a story. It's a cook book which I had been working on. I need to remember it and start working on it again.
Honestly? I'm not posting every single file. there are literally hundreds of little files in here, some of them bits of artwork, or character charts or previous drafts of text, edited copy and various other things. I'm very OCD and when I start creating a story, I have like 5 sub folders to start on the story, for different things. As the worldbuilding process goes on, there are more folders, often within the folders.
For instance, in Gaia's Song, there is a character folder and in that folder is a folder for every single character which contains things like the character's chart, any artwork, and various other things. For the character Daniel Teridani, he has two subfolders, one of which is labeled "Dan's Blog" (contains the elements for Daniel's online blog once hosted on blogger) and the other labeled "Dan's Stuff" (contains pictures of stuff Daniel has, like his Tachi no Dachi, his emerald ring, lists of herbs and what they do, lists of medicines and what they do, a picture of Daniel's card, which apparently has some mushrooms on it. hahaha. I've been two days just with this. If I get into every file, you'll never see the end of this meme.
Maybe I ought to list the name of every character chart I have in these folders. but not this one. Maybe I'll start a new one. For now, this is the end.
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poetrywas always very organized. no scraps of stuff tucked here and there, even if it was written on a scrap it got a hole or two put in in it and was safely ensconced in my lyric book. (A giant 3 ring binder 3 inches thick). This was true of stories too, each one had it's own binder.So when the computer age came and I got my first real PC, it was only natural to be very organized about it. Each story has it's own folder, each story folder has it's own set of subfolders. For example: Maps, Characters, Outlines, Countries, Illustrations.
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*coughTheMatrixcoughcough*
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P.S. You didn't pick a story to hear from! hahaha.
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"Thank you for your help, last night," Ash smiled, deciding that if she was the only one who could offer courtesy to the elf, then she would do so. "Is that…" she trailed off as Teren dismounted. Her eyes were fixed on the instrument in his hand. "Are you playing a carrot?"
Then three chapters further down the road: Chapter 11 - Sun Elves
Rowan smiled at her. "What about you, Sister?" he asked. "Have you learned to play your little whistle?"
"Well, perhaps a little," she said blushing prettily, her hands closing around the little wooden instrument Teren had made for her while Rowan had slept one day. "I wouldn't mind if the three of you heard it so much now, but I still shouldn't like to inflict it on everyone else on the road. Perhaps Teren should play his carrot instead."
"I do not have a carrot today!" Teren called back in mock annoyance.
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Lucifer's Daughter, which had the following codicil: (P.S. This is a saved story idea, and there is not one scrap of this story written at this time other than the graph preceding.)
So you have already seen all that there is to give. You may of course pick another.
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Also, you didn't pick a story to read from. *pouts*
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Well I am partial to all your writing, so do I have to choose just one?
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I'm surprised that not a single one of the "material is not what we're looking for" gave you any feedback at all about why it was not what they were looking for. That's unusual.
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Atta girl! Definitely my great granddaughter. Damn the torpedoes full steam ahead.